High heels race, popsicles for orangutans, maritime show | July 2

People look at flowers laid in memory of Britain’s Sir Nicholas Winton on German-born Jewish sculptor Frank Meisler’s “Kindertransport” (German for children transport) memorial statue outside Liverpool Street Station in London, Thursday, July 2, 2015. Winton, a humanitarian who almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, earning himself the label Britain’s Schindler, has died aged 106. Winton arranged trains to carry children from Nazi-occupied Prague to Britain, battling bureaucracy at both ends and saving them from almost certain death. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Sabine Lisicki of Germany makes a return to Christina McHale of the United States during their singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Thursday July 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Spectators watch the singles match between Dustin Brown of Germany and Rafael Nadal of Spain on the big screen on Murray Mount at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Thursday July 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

The sunglasses of a spectator reflects the Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Thursday July 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Prime Minister Manuel Valls, right, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, make a selfie at the end the Franco-Chinese Economic Summit “Innovating for the future, build together ” in Toulouse, southwestern France, Thursday July 2, 2015. Li Keqiang will later visit the European plane maker Airbus plant. (AP Photo/Fred Scheiber)

Michael Robinson, left, and Earl Benjamin, partners for almost 14 years, exchange vows before Judge Paula Brown in a ceremony at Orleans Parish Civil District Court on Monday, June 29, 2015, in New Orleans. Court clerks across the state of Louisiana received the go-ahead to issue same-sex marriage licenses Monday. (Kathleen Flynn/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP, POOL)

A man cools off in a fountain in Berlin, Thursday, July 2, 2015. A mass of hot air moving north from Africa has sent temperatures spiking in Spain, Portugal, Britain, France and Germany in recent days. Temperatures in Germany are expected to reach up to 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

People take photos as demonstrators from the Greek Communist party gather during a rally supporting the no vote for the upcoming referendum in front of the parliament in Athens, Thursday, July 2, 2015. The battle for Greek votes entered full swing Thursday ahead of a crucial weekend referendum that could decide whether the country falls out of the euro. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Passengers are seen in the train car at Omonoia Metro station in central Athens, on Thursday, July 2, 2015. Greece braced for more chaos on the streets outside its mostly shuttered banks Thursday, as Athens and its creditors halted talks on resolving the country’s deepening financial crisis until a referendum this weekend. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Family members members of passengers on a military plane that crashed onto a residential area weep at a hospital in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, July 2, 2015. The aging Indonesian military transport plane that crashed into a residential neighborhood of Medan had a propeller “abnormality” that indicated an engine stalled, the air force chief said Thursday. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

An orangutan watches a popsicle as zoo-keepers gave animals iced food to keep them cool as temperatures soar, at Rome’s zoo, Thursday, July 2, 2015. A mass of hot air moving north from Africa is bringing a heat wave to Europe with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius (114 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Egyptian mourn the funeral procession of 1st Lt. Mohammed Adel Abdel Azeem, killed in Wednesday’s attack by Islamic militants in the Sinai, at his home village Tant Al Jazeera in Qalubiyah, north of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, July 2, 2015. Islamic State-linked militants launched an unprecedented wave of attacks in northern Sinai on Wednesday, setting off the fiercest fighting the peninsula has seen in decades and undermining government efforts to stem the insurgency. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Men uncover the body of a girl under the rubble of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, July 2, 2015. The United Nations on Wednesday declared its highest-level humanitarian emergency in conflict-torn Yemen, where over 80 percent of the population needs assistance. U.N. officials have said the Arab world’s most impoverished country is now a step away from famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Smoke rises after a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, July 2, 2015. The United Nations on Wednesday declared its highest-level humanitarian emergency in conflict-torn Yemen, where over 80 percent of the population needs assistance. U.N. officials have said the Arab world’s most impoverished country is now a step away from famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

A man stands in front of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, July 2, 2015. The United Nations on Wednesday, declared its highest-level humanitarian emergency in conflict-torn Yemen, where over 80 percent of the population needs assistance. U.N. officials have said the Arab world’s most impoverished country is now a step away from famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Team Lotto Jumbo with Jos van Emden, center standing, and Belgium’s Sep Vanmarcke, center right standing, urge the crowd to cheer louder as they arrive for the team presentation in Utrecht, Netherlands, Thursday, July 2, 2015, two days ahead of the start of the Tour de France cycling race. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Britain’s Christopher Froome, front left, and Australia’s Richie Porte, front right, pass cyclists as they train with their teammates near Utrecht, Netherlands, Thursday, July 2, 2015, two days ahead of the start of the Tour de France cycling race. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

People gather during a rescue operation, after a bridge collapse led a train to fall into a canal in Wazirabad, near Lahore, Pakistan Thursday, July 2, 2015. At least four cars of a train being used to transport Pakistani soldiers fell into a canal because of a bridge collapse in the eastern Punjab province on Thursday, killing at least twelve soldiers, officials said. (AP Photo/Rameez Khan)

Rescuers help passengers from a capsized ferry boat, center, in Ormoc city on Leyte Island, Philippines, Thursday, July 2, 2015. A ferry capsized Thursday as it left a central Philippine port in choppy waters, leaving dozens dead and many others missing, coast guard officials said. (Ignatius Martin/Miquicar Photostudio via AP)

An honor guard soldier adjusts the outfit of a colleague standing in the sunlight before a welcoming ceremony for NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, July 2, 2015. Stoltenberg is meeting top officials in Romania and will inspect a site where the alliance will build a facility dubbed the NATO Force Integration Unit that is similar to ones planned in Poland, Bulgaria and the three Baltic states  Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, in reaction to the crisis in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

L-39 jets of the “Russ” aerobatic team create by smoke a heart pierced by an arrow during an air show at the International Maritime Defence show in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, July 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

A competitor runs during the Gay Pride High Heels race in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, July 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

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